Many regions of the earth are known for the monsters they produce. We think of a moss-covered castle by the Rhine and picture Frankenstein's monster. We hear of the wooded, mountainous region known as Transylvania and are reminded of Dracula. We think of Prague and are reminded of the Golem. We think of Los Angeles and are reminded of America's homegrown monster, Charles Manson.

Charles Manson is emblematic of the demonic turn American society has taken. Like the starry-eyed killer from California, America justifies every imaginable evil - drug use, pornography, abortion, and homosexuality - in a saccharine appeal to love, peace, and freedom. Like Manson, our leaders plead for the right to commit the most heinous acts, in the soft, dulcet tones used by the cult leader responsible for the murders of so many.

Till now there has been no name for this peculiarly American mindset, which has resulted in a total inversion of morality - no name for the murder of the unborn in the name of choice; no name for the sale and consumption of illicit drugs in the name of freedom; no name for the advocacy of sodomy and the spreading of lethal diseases in the name of marriage. Till now, this ideology has lacked a name, and thus it has been able to carry out its wicked deeds in the deep darkness that anonymity provides.

But no longer! since this ideology now has a name - Mansonism, the ideology which justifies every evil action in the name of love, peace, and freedom. Once the public knows the name of this twisted ideology, then how easy it will be to see it in operation, through the workings of a Mansonite government which kills the innocent through abortion and lets the convicted murder live; through a Mansonite judiciary which bans Christianity in the classroom, but allows pornography to flourish on every street corner; through a Mansonite culture which honors ugliness and disease as art; and raucous noise as music.

Let us welcome this new word, for we know that just as soon as the beast has a name, we shall call it by that name, driving it back into the black darkness whence it came.

Romulus